Such mobile apps can be uploaded to the Google Playstore or Apple Appstore for end users to buy and/or download, or you could distribute your app inside a company for private use.

Together with running your app in a web browser, on any platform or device, you can compile the same app (the same application file/library code) into a mobile app for running directly on Android and iOS mobile devices including phones and tablets – you do this using the JavaScript Wrappers, which are available for Android and iOS. So end users can access the same application on the Omnis Server regardless of the platform or device they are using – your Omnis app will run in the web browser on the end user’s computer or mobile device, using the unique and powerful Omnis JavaScript Client technology, so in a single stroke you can cater to all platforms and devices. Not only this, but you can use the same code base in your application (library and classes) to cater to all these platforms and devices, without modification.

The following simple function allow you to generate a download of a file directly in the browser without contact any server.Omnis Studio allows you to create applications quickly and easily, for all platforms and devices, including desktop computers and mobile devices, on all the popular platforms, including Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. In this article we are going to show you a couple of tricks to generate and download directly a file using pure Javascript. Therefore, the automatic download of file has been difficult to achieve in the latest years, but now with the introduction of HTML5, this task has become easier to achieve. However, in the latest browsers unknow or rare downloaded file extensions are blocked and a prompt appears if you really want to open that file (at less in Chrome). Imagine that you use Google Chrome and you have enabled the option 'Auto-open downloaded files', and for your bad luck you enter in a malicious website and it generates the download of an unknown file. Generate and download a file using Javascript ? If you think about it, this isn't so secure as you think and shouldn't be allowed without the user interaction (however now is allowed).

Javascript download for mobile